I have a pretty standard backup scheme implemented: Fulls on Friday, Differentials nightly, Transaction Logs throughout the day. These are all automated tasks.

Occasionally we will need to take “one off” full backups for various reasons.

A lot of times, my users that are taking the one offs remember to use the copy only option, but sometimes they do not. This presents the obvious problem of the following nightly differential being based off of the “one off” full backups.

Is there a way to prevent any user (except for my backup operator) from making backups without the copy only option?